The local cops didn’t mention it, apparently since he was helping them. Jack did not have a Driver’s License, but he spent a lot of time driving someone else’s car. But the rest was such a good ride I didn’t mind. Even Sherlock Holmes couldn’t have done that. Jack’s ability to guess someone’s alias and location was too far-fetched for me. If it’s entertaining with good action, I’m happy to accept “technical fiction.” I do agree some things were too coincidental. Some reviewers complained that the author wasn’t technically accurate about weapons, procedures, and other things. There were some gruesome torture scenes that might bother some readers, but they are described after the fact, not shown, which may help a little. She and Jack fall for each other so there is a touch of romance and several sex scenes. So I liked seeing Jack hurt or kill them without worrying about their civil rights. I like seeing revenge and justice for bad guys. I loved what he did when he was wrongly put into the section of a prison with the worst of convicted murderers. Jack is put into circumstances where I think how is he going to survive? But he does neat things and survives and wins. No one is being stupid or incompetent – well, maybe a little by some of the bad guys who are not as competent as Jack. I can’t wait to keep going with this series. I was pulled in and didn’t want to stop reading for almost the entire book. Wow! This was good! When Jack hears the details about the first murder, his analysis was amazing. In the next few days the police chief is killed and someone else disappears. The local cops arrest Jack for questioning. Someone was killed around the time Jack arrived. Jack gets off the bus and walks into the small town of Margrave, Georgia, out of curiosity about a singer who lived there sixty years ago. Now Jack just wants to wander, living off his severance pay, buying cheap clothes he can throw away rather than wash, no ID, no Driver’s License, no credit cards, using cash, being anonymous. He retired as a major six months ago at age 36. He had to be able to outthink them and fight them. He was a homicide investigator in the military police for thirteen years, hunting trained killers gone bad.
This is the first book in the Jack Reacher series, sixteen books so far. Rambo, Dirty Harry, with a hint of Sherlock Holmes – fun, exciting, suspense, escape.
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